[Asterisk-biz] Linksys announcement

[Melisa Teoh]

According to Linksys, Linksysone is a front end hosted solution designed 
to support service providers.  It needs Cisco back-end equipment 
(service nodes) at the providers' costing between USD260k and over 500k 
each. 

Contrary to what has been published in media, we were told by Linksys 
that this product runs Cisco proprietary protocol, not SIP.

Currently, the product is undergoing test in Australia and a blueprint 
will be ready mid 2006 before they will decide if/when to launch worldwide.

Would be interested to hear other feedback anyone else may have received 
from Linksys contacts.

Melisa.
Michael S. White wrote:

>T1? Not a problem
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>Since this is a "hosted solution" companies using Linksysone are required to
>use one of the authorized Hosted Service Providers--MCI airBand, or
>NeoNova... 
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>We looked in to reselling this but it seems that linksys wants resellers to
>commit to the demo kit (+$1000) before announcing what it will cost
>end-user's for the managed service. Not a huge cap expense but talk about
>putting the cart before the horse!
>
>Just my 2 pennies...
>MW
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Scott Wolfe
>Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:22 AM
>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Linksys announcement
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>This looks like a nice unit.  To bad it does not have a T1/E1 Interface 
>and/or a few more analog ports.
>-Scott
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jason Becker" <jason at coalescentsystems.ca>
>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
><asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:48 AM
>Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Linksys announcement
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>>Linksys Announces SIP-Based IP PBX, Desktop Phones, and Gateway for 
>>Internet Telephony Service Providers
>>
>>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060105/nyth090.html?.v=33
>>
>>Notables:
>>
>>Out of the box, the SPA9000 supports up to four (4) users. Via a software 
>>license key upgrade, up to sixteen (16) users can be supported.
>>
>>***
>>
>>Estimated Street Pricing for the new SIP-based IP Communication Solutions 
>>is as follows:
>>
>>IP PBX
>>SPA9000:  $ 399.99
>>SPA9000UPG:  $300.00 (Upgrade license for SPA9000 to support 16 phones).
>>
>>***
>>
>>Service Providers Supporting the SPA9000 Platform
>>
>>ITSPs currently developing services using the SPA9000 Platform include:
>>
>>    North America          EMEA                   APAC
>>    VoicePulse             Telio (Norway)         Engin (Australia)
>>    RNK Telecom
>>
>>***
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>-- 
>>Jason Becker
>>Director & CEO
>>Coalescent Systems Inc.
>>Enabling Open Source Telephony
>>403.244.8089
>>www.coalescentsystems.ca
>>www.gabcast.com
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